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<strong>Im looking for a alternative to Dreamweaver MX, it is really sluggish on my Mac and am wondering if there are any alternatives out there for people who do a lot of web design?</strong><hr></blockquote>

well dreamweaver is the best, but there are faster and less feature rich, Stone Studio comes to mind

I can vouch for <a href="http://www.stone.com&quot; target="_blank">Stone Studio</a>, but I can't say whether it's the best or not. It works like a layout app, so that's why I like it. Feel free to try it, it has a 30 day full-use trial license.

I am pretty much a DW or hand coder myself, but I am also curious about apps that are powerful AND good at not rewriting code. (Especially if one day my beloved is going to be <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=002011&quot; target="_blank">enslaved</a> by Microsoft). That is one of the beautiful things about DW - if you want some crazy code, it doesn't try to think for you...

Check out Freeway, it's easily the best WYSIWYG html generator on the planet, with the focus on design, not html. It gets rave reviews everywhere, and not without reason. Produces the cleanest code in the busness as well!!

<strong>Im looking for a alternative to Dreamweaver MX, it is really sluggish on my Mac and am wondering if there are any alternatives out there for people who do a lot of web design?</strong><hr></blockquote>

out of curiosity, what are you running it on? though dreamweaver MX is far from the most responsive apps that i use, it is still very good. it's perfroms very nicely on my G4 powermac 450 at work. on my 800 quicksilver, it flies. i also have more than half a gig of ram on each, which helps.

Anyone use PHP (or other non-HTML) scripting in that environment? That is one of the things that makes me nervous about your average WYSIWYG. They tend to want to rewrite your HTML (and blow anything else out of the water).

That is one of the reasons I like DW so much. I can write anything I want - it won't touch it unless I want it to.

Anyone use PHP (or other non-HTML) scripting in that environment? That is one of the things that makes me nervous about your average WYSIWYG. They tend to want to rewrite your HTML (and blow anything else out of the water).

That is one of the reasons I like DW so much. I can write anything I want - it won't touch it unless I want it to.</strong><hr></blockquote>

i feel the same way. don't know dick about stonestudio, but one of the big reason i don't care for freeway is it doesn't give you access to the html it generates. you have some php functionality via php modules, but over all it's pretty weak in that area.

I think Create can do this, but I haven't done anything like this myself. If I were you, I might first search stone.com, and maybe write Andrew Stone and ask. Here are a couple of shots that make me think it can:

i feel the same way. don't know dick about stonestudio, but one of the big reason i don't care for freeway is it doesn't give you access to the html it generates. you have some php functionality via php modules, but over all it's pretty weak in that area.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Not true at all! This is available for Freeway;

Source Code Snooper

Snoop into the code that Freeway and other actions generate and, if you want to, change it!

Combine this with it's outstanding WYSIWYG tools and you've got a program that can't be beat!!

<strong>Not true at all! This is available for Freeway</strong><hr></blockquote>

Any WYSIWYG worth anything will allow you to get in there and get your hands dirty. I am not planning on switching any time soon, but DW keeps getting bigger and bigger - I really only use a fraction of what it does. I was really excited about them rolling Ultradev functionality into the main DW branch, but after screwing with it initially I just didn't like the control I had over the PHP it wrote. I haven't used any built in PHP functions since.

Do these products allow you to build using the newest standards (XHTML)? And how well does the code stand up if you are building using new-school layers instead of old-school tables? I haven't gotten totally up to speed on the newest standards, but that is really important to me for my future projects (I am going to start trying to go current standards only as much as possible from here on out.)

I actually gave up on GoLive when it was GoLive Cyberstudio. The process was so opposite of the way my brain conceived of creating a web page - I decided it was a lot easier to write them by hand. I have no idea what it is like today - most people choose a camp and stick pretty close to home...

Back in high school (1997, 98), the instructor told us to download CyberStudio (now GoLive) and do some simply task. CyberStudio was good at that time, then I bought a couple WYSIWYG editors, Adobe PageMill and ClarisHomepage v3. Now in the OS X boat, I bought the Macromedia Studio MX, which includes DW and the edu. license is cheaper that Adobe offers too. I'm on an iMac 333 w/256MB RAM. DW is slow and I don't like the interface and seens buggy to me. Second, DW is all new to me. Now, I'm also looking for either spending $100 for GoLive/LiveMotion pack or their WebCollection(PS7, AI 10, GoLive 6, and Acrobat 5) bundle for $399. I'm pretty familiar with the GoLive GUI (was a version 5 user) and very happy about it.

During the MacWorld, I tried Freeway at the booth; it was okay but looking for more mainstream commerical editior. I'm planning to work on some php, CSS, Flash, DHTML stuff.

the main difference between alot of these are this...DreamWeaver is professional grade, its what professionals use (when not coding by hand), it goes hand in hand with fireworks and flash...also cold fusion.

the other are good and DW was midly slow on my G3 400MHz with 384mb ram, but it was definatly usable. ran kinda like PS does on it, but i expect professional grade stuff not to run perfect on a 4yr old machine.

Grew up on BBEdit and slowing moving to DW. It is SLOW opening files (Dual 1gig/1gig Ram). I mean, it takes 10 seconds or more sometimes. It wasn't this slow in 9.0.

Just now tried the 6.1 upgrade and it seems to open up files much quicker. Maybe they fixed some problems!

One note is that a lot of people are using DW so if future site maintenance is an issue, at least you'll be more compatible with them. DW is still a little wiggy at times (it does try to fix some code that it shouldn't). I haven't tried GoLive in ages - probably ought to. Now if I could get some jackasses out there to quit using FrontPage I'd be a happy man!

<strong>Grew up on BBEdit and slowing moving to DW. It is SLOW opening files (Dual 1gig/1gig Ram). I mean, it takes 10 seconds or more sometimes. It wasn't this slow in 9.0.

Just now tried the 6.1 upgrade and it seems to open up files much quicker. Maybe they fixed some problems!

One note is that a lot of people are using DW so if future site maintenance is an issue, at least you'll be more compatible with them. DW is still a little wiggy at times (it does try to fix some code that it shouldn't). I haven't tried GoLive in ages - probably ought to. Now if I could get some jackasses out there to quit using FrontPage I'd be a happy man!

Chas</strong><hr></blockquote>

they try to make us use it as school for our webpage class, i made the an IT member come down and install the demo of dreamweaver for me...once it expired i don't do anything anymore